Word: rapport
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...health clinics can dispense birth control, but they can't provide the rapport that we do," said Elizabeth Miller, the health center's medical director...
DelBanco and Stone also handle their roles with aplomb. They render their relationship as brother and sister instantly believable; the various strains Anna's disease and her promiscuity put on this relationship are conveyed with delicacy and subtlety. Their rapport, especially when they reminisce about their childhood closeness, rings touchingly true, and is especially poignant in a play dedicated to Vogel's own lost bother. But Carl and Anna are neither melodramatic nor cliched. Amid the kaleidoscopic, surreal happenings of Vogel's plot, one never loses a sense of these characters' essential normality and love for each other...
While a closer rapport between the Advocate andthe administration might improve the quarterly'sfinances, Patton says she is satisfied with thepresent arrangement...
Rising notably above the production in terms of subtlety and humor is Winsome Brown as Lysistrata. The role of Lysistrata is particularly difficult since she is at the center of intrigue, and appears in almost every scene. Maintainig a devilish smirk and unflagging energy throughout the play, Brown sustains rapport with the audience. She effectively coordinates the sub-plots of the characters on stage, as well as creating a complex, witty personality for herself...
This slap-stick atmosphere, however, proves incompatible when the film chooses to shift gears, focusing on the serious problems of divorce. While Sally Field is largely convincing as a somewhat frustrated, struggling career woman, the "real-life" interactions between Daniel and Miranda seem stiff and unrealistic. And no tangible rapport is established between Daniel and his beloved children--they may profess to love him, but all seem equally fond of thehandsome, stereotypical yuppie Stu, a purposelyone-dimensional character. The relationshipbetween Daniel/Mrs. Doubtfire and Stu seems overlystrained given that Daniel's main motivation forthe charade is to see his kids...